I'm gonna be straight up with yyou guys
Ive never played this game before, full on avoided it for 12 years straight. what's the best lightly modded 'vanilla+' type experience I could have for a first playthrough? unofficial patch and call it a day?
I'm gonna be straight up with yyou guys. Ive never played this game before, full on avoided it for 12 years straight.
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help me you cunts
buy anniversary edition, for special edition skyrim
i never once modded it so the idea of modding right away before you even play it seems stupid
I know the game is infinitely janky and bethesda themselves have a 'the mods will fix it' attitude, so why wouldn't I just make the vanilla game more manageable?
I dont wanna play completely unfiltered jank, just duct-taped jank
if you already made your mind up why did you make a thread asking for help then retard
because I don't actually know how to fix the game, I've never fucking played the game and only absorbed info about it through osmosis of being the only person who hasnt
why wouldnt I ask for a specific list of things to accomplish what I want when I dont know any of said prerequisite knowledge
fat retard
well i never experienced any jank and i was always skeptical whenever Gankerners insisted to me skyrim needed mods to be playable, and i actually never found it needed mods when i did play it
again, i think you should actually see for yourself how the game is unmodded before you get yourself into a mess of trying to install mods and getting frustrated doing that instead of actually enjoying skyrim, because it is a good game
again, make sure you buy special edition and try nexusmods they usually have install instructions on the mod pages
Anon, do you really think a game that everyone's normie grandma played is going to feel unbearably janky? The animations are a bit robotic but it's way overblown by critics who are just salty Skyrim is more popular than their favorite game.
Skyrim must have been your first Bethesda game. They're known for being jank incarnate that's only fixed with mods.
nobody fucking cares, enjoy your Gankerner autistic echo chamber
Anyone who has ever played a CRPG before know this is a fact of the genre not at all isolated to Bethesda. Ambitious systemic games have more bugs. Either you knew this and you're being a disingenuous ass because you hate that Bethesda is more popular than your favorite dev. Or you don't know this in which case you have no right to preach to anyone about what is and isn't a "real RPG".
It's not a big deal that Skyrim was your first Bethesda game, there's no reason to get heated. Bethesda's poor development skills go well beyond simple bugs-- just look up the leveling system and level scaling from TESIV: Oblivion as an example. I also never mentioned anything about "real RPGs," I'm not sure where that insecurity is coming from.
It was, and tinkering around in the Bethesda (and Valve) dev consoles is what inspired me to major in Computer Science.
That's pretty cool, I hope it all works out for you. I had a lot of fun pissing around in Morrowind's Construction Set as a youngster.
Skyrim released 12 years ago. I'm a senior software developer now.
skyui is all you need
dumb question i feel like i already know the answer to, can you remove creation club contents you dont like from anniversary edition? like just unchecking a dlc on steam?
you have to delete the files from the data folder, its easy but dumb.
>I just want to play already
SkyUI
>but I want to avoid bugs and shit
https://dragonbornsfate.github.io/utilities.html
https://dragonbornsfate.github.io/bugfix.html
>I wish the game looked a bit nicer
Noble Skyrim
The stuff here if you need more https://dragonbornsfate.github.io/visuals.html
The easiest way is to move the CC files to another folder.
I think there is a mod that deals with that but I don't have AE.
Not OP but if I follow the visuals section and prefer to not use ENB is there anything else you'd recommend?
I think that list is good enough for a "pure" vanilla+ experience, except for EVLaS. Personally I think EVLaS changes the game too much (realistic shadows are cool but it doesn't look very nice in some areas, and the engine can't really handle it well so shadows will flicker and and pop-up suddenly in some occasions).
You could also add a weather mod that doesn't rely on ENBs if you want the open areas to look nicer in sunny days, like Vivid Weathers or Azurite Weathers (recommends a ENB but is ok without one).
I don't recommend interior lighting overhaul mods (like the popular Lux) because all of them they are designed with ENB in mind (ambient light in dungeons will look bad half of the time without ENB). Special Edition's lighting is decent enough.
I already have azurite so I'll see how it looks adding the stuff from the guide and turning off evlas. Thanks Anon
ENB just eats too much fps for my liking on my shit rig so I'm trying other options.
You bought the AE upgrade?
I suggest downgrading either to 1.5.970 or 1.6.353 max. I think there’s a “best of both world” option (downgraded gamever yet with CC contents intact)
Many mods don’t support AE upgrades afaik. Ymmv
>unofficial patch and call it a day?
Fuck no
if only you could understand the effort I went through to patch out the unofficial patch
that shit is fucking trash
play pure vanilla, AE if you want, but otherwise just play the vanilla experience.
If anything the only thing you need is a SkyUI
wtf I just read this while writing my post
spbp
This. Shitty console UI makes default Skyrim nearly unplayable.
Unofficial patch
Immersive sound compendium
Ostim NG and all its addons
SkyUI
>Unofficial patch
wrong
>Immersive sound compendium
mega wrong
>Ostim NG and all its addons
fuck no
>SkyUI
yes
sound compendium
>mega wrong
Never used it. Whats wrong with it?
It's not vanilla
SkyUI isn’t vanilla either ‘tard
It's not really an improvement over vanilla. It's essentially +300 MB of "your mileage may vary" noises, and there is a good chance that you won't even hear half of the new sounds because of how creation kit works (and you won't even realize it). These type of "minor autistic edits" mods are always overwritten by other mods editing objects' appearance and/or stats, for example (since they will just use vanilla sounds or their own custom sounds), and if you let ISC take priority over other mods you will probably break all your other mods in the process.
It's a lose-lose situation, unless you use Sound Record Distributor and the appropriate config files, but that is also another "lose" situation (at this point you are installing mods to install mods to install mods that you don't even know if they are worth the trouble to begin with, and this is a slippery slope that will turn your "vanilla+, 5 minutes install" mod list into an adventure of pointless "might be cool" downloads that will consume a few weeks of your life).
At the end of the day, the only mod you really "need" is SkyUI.
> Installs mods before playing the game
> Wtf this game is shit
> Wtf this game is doesn't work
you are getting upset at made up scenarios you made in your mind
No he's right
I spent more time modding than ever playing and most of the time when I was playing I would end get CTDs and then have to troubleshoot it
I always install alternate start before I do a play through, also helgan reborn.
Anon, the entire world and their grandmothers played this game near release. You don't need any mods to appreciate it. That being said SkyUI and immersive sounds compendium are good vanilla plus adds. Would be wary of the Unofficial Patch, it's not as unobtrusive as it seems. Arthmoor is a known cunt and there are several examples of unwarranted changes because he didn't understand something.
Interesting, I wonder if some of my conflicts are directly related to that. I've never done a playthrough without Unofficial Patch. Some of my core mods put it in as a requirement.
>Some of my core mods put it in as a requirement
I've noticed some mods are straight up lying about that and just put that because people think its a must have. For those mods that actually require it you can use it along with RUASLEEP(?) to revert most of the dumb shit in it.
You should play it vanilla for a first playthrough
>2011 was 12 years ago
8 years until the 20th Anniversary Edition, bro
Install the Phoenix Flavour modlist from Wabbajack.
>first time playing a game
>immediately ask for mods
Why are people like this?
because bethesda is incompetent
enjoy ruining a game before you even play it first you shit-eating mongoloid retard
Bethesda is so crap they haven't managed to fix glaring problems with their game after 10 years and you still need mods.
use SkyUI if you're on desktop
it's almost mandatory
another gay with a stupid opinion
Licentia Black
Just install and play. The bugs are part of the vanilla skyrim experience.
OP, you're 16 right?
I'm 25
>Modded Skyrim
Not worth it, you will fall for the mods fix Skyrim meme.
I have more than 50 hours in it and it's almost all for setting up porn mods and only a few hours of it is actually playing it
Don't play mage your first time but if you do don't put the difficult bar too high else you will suffer from boredom in killing bandits.
What's wrong with the unofficial patch? I just installed phoenix flavor from redditwaka and wondering if I should restart over with just basic self picked mods.